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| Mexican police have found at least seven bodies on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, near the US border. | Mexican police have found at least seven bodies on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, near the US border. |
| The bodies were partially buried in a desert area south of the city. Police are working to identify the victims. | The bodies were partially buried in a desert area south of the city. Police are working to identify the victims. |
| Ciudad Juarez is Mexico's most violent city. Fighting between drug gangs has led the government to send thousands of troops to patrol its streets. | Ciudad Juarez is Mexico's most violent city. Fighting between drug gangs has led the government to send thousands of troops to patrol its streets. |
| About 1,600 people were killed in the city last year as criminals fight to control drug routes into the US. | About 1,600 people were killed in the city last year as criminals fight to control drug routes into the US. |
| More than 1,000 people across Mexico have been killed already in 2009, about one-third of them in Ciudad Juarez. | |
| Success or failure? | |
| Beheadings, attacks on police, and shootings in clubs and restaurants are a daily occurrence in some regions. | |
| Five severed heads were found in ice coolers by the side of a road in the central state of Jalisco on Tuesday, with notes addressed to rivals of the killers, who were assumed to be involved in the drug war. | |
| Some police forces across the country have been corrupted by the rich drug cartels and journalists who report on cartel activities have been targeted. | |
| Since December 2006 the Mexican government has deployed a total of about 40,000 troops and police to fight the country's drug cartels. | Since December 2006 the Mexican government has deployed a total of about 40,000 troops and police to fight the country's drug cartels. |
| The Mexican government holds that the violence wracking the country is a reflection of its success in tackling the drug gangs, which have been rendered leaderless and reduced to fighting for fewer spoils. | |
| Others argue that the cartels have become so powerful that they effectively control some parts of the country, and the violence is evidence of their gang law. |